Today despite the unprecedented circumstances, we come together as the United States congress bestows its highest honor the congressional gold medal of the crewmen of the uss indianapolis. Thank you to the entire indiana delegation, indiana Governor Eric Holcomb and secretary of the navy, and Brigadier General goodwin for your efforts to make this momentous event as possible. Thank you as well to leader mitch mccom, senator schumer, and Kevin Mcconnell to ensure this would be a successful and thank you to the heroes of it is uss indianapolis. Please stand, as you are able, for the presentation of the colors and the national anthem. Halt. Present arms. O say, can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming . Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming . And the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there oh,
The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. July 31, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable Dianne Degette to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving god, thank you for giving us another day. We turn to you, much as the psalmist did of old. Though we walk in the midst of dangers, you guard our lives with when our enemies rage. You stretch out your hand, your right hand saves us. And again we are surrounded by enemies who are like lions hungry for human flesh. Show your greatness in the sky, o god, and your glory over all the earth. And yet again look, your enemies are in an uproar and those who hate you have raised their head against your people. They devise deceptive schemes and lot toget
Member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall the debate continue beyond 9 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the honorable gentleman from texas, mr. Green, for five minutes. Mr. Green thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it is my preeminent privilege to rise today to pay tribute to a great and noble american, a dear friend, a member of this house until his transition. Mr. Speaker, of course i speak of none other than the honorable john lewis. I want to recognize and say words about him today because he took the he took to heart the words of gandy began dirks we should be the change we seek. He was the sermon that he preached. He did what he said he would do and inspired others to do like wise. It is said a great person will always rise to the occasion. But it is also said that the greater person makes the occasion. Well, when it came to the Edmund Pettus bridge, not only did he rise to the occasion by marching across th
8 00 p. M. Eastern on the communicators on cspan2. President trump spoke in the oval office about another possible coronavirus aid package for the present was joined by Vice President mike pence, treasury secretary steven the newton and were publican leaders Mitch Mcconnell and kevin mccarthy. Thank you very much. You have asked to see what is going on at our meetings and i figured to let you come in and you will look and see that we have a lot of good things happening. We have tremendous progress on vaccines and therapeutics we are getting reports and studying the reports very closely. I think people will be pleasantly surprised with what is going on the vaccine front and the therapeutic front. That is always the first topic. Secondarily, but very importantly, we are working and negotiating with the democrats on trying to get a plan that helps Small Businesses and helps people and helps this country and i think we have made a lot of progress on that in the discussions are going on. St
To the life of one of the iconic figures of not just the Civil Rights Movement, but of the ways and Means Committee. I sat next to john lewis for 25 years on the ways and Means Committee and i must tell you, he was the bravest, most gentle person i ever met. He nearly lost his life in pursuit of justice and confronted some of the darkest society at the Edmund Pettus bridge as a very young man. But he never lost faith in what america could become. During those many conversations, and he offered a tutorial to me about the life and the legend that he had offered to america, his unyielding optimism and hope lifted the spirits of his fellow members of congress and the American People in our nations most trying moments. With quiet strength, grace and love, he shouldered unthinkable burdens and changed this world for the better. Through it all, he was unfailingly humble, selfless and kind and i must say, and i was commenting a moment ago to some colleagues on the committee, if he was in the r